Creating Access
Cool Culture partners with the City’s finest cultural institutions to ensure that all families, regardless of income, can tap into the rich New York City cultural pipeline and provide their children with experiences critical to school success.
Providing arts access opens the gateway to a world of culture and discovery for Cool Culture families. For many of the families of low-income, participating in Cool Culture serves as the first introduction they have to the City’s cultural institutions.
COOL TOOLS
Cool Culture family resources arm parents and children with the skills to have a successful visit at all types of cultural institutions. Learn more!
BRIDGING THE GAP
Cool Culture brings together community members to help parents to instill a love of learning in their children that will last a lifetime while supporting their children's educational development, essential in addressing the achievement gap.
NYC's museums, botanical gardens, wildlife, and performing arts centers provide exceptional opportunities for families to engage in just the types of activities that contribute to young children's cognitive and language development while cultivating new audiences for the arts.
Our goal is to facilitate literacy and learning through cultural visits and to foster a new population of informed, cultural connoisseurs who will remain engaged long after they have graduated from Cool Culture.
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2010-11 Cool Culture Reference Guide for Cultural Partners
Cultural Partner Handbook (09-10)
Family Time
In 1999, Cool Culture began with 12 cultural institution partners and today has partnerships with 90 of NYC’s best known art museums, historical societies, botanic gardens and zoos.
